Month October 2021
Family getting up: Monday (11/01/21)Morning Mrs. Esther MoskowitzWife R’ David MoskowitzBrother Mrs. Goldy RottbergSister R’ Meir MoskowitzSon R’ Yaakov MoskowitzSon Mrs. Yocheved RottenbergDaughter Mrs. Rivka FalikDaughter
GENEVA (AP) – More than one world leader says humanity’s future, even survival, hangs in the balance when international officials meet in Scotland to try to accelerate efforts to curb climate change. Temperatures, tempers and hyperbole have all ratcheted up… Continue Reading →
[Public Notice]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is in talks to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to each child and parent who was separated under a Trump-era practice of splitting families at the border, a person familiar with… Continue Reading →
Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck and Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro today announced criminal charges against a New Jersey man for allegedly transporting 13 gun kits and an equal amount of ammunition magazines from Pennsylvania into New… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — For years, Zebulon Simentov branded himself as the “last Jew of Afghanistan,” the sole remnant of a centuries-old community. He charged reporters for interviews and held court in Kabul’s only remaining synagogue. He left the country last… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Election time is when parties promote their dreams. One cannot speak about the promises of others but the Orthodox Jewish chamber of Commerce (501c6) can testify as a group working with presidents, government officials, governors, senators, congress, ambassadors, council… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicaid issues are turning up as winners in President Joe Biden’s social agenda framework even as divisions force Democrats to hit pause on far-reaching improvements to Medicare. The budget blueprint Biden released Thursday would fulfill a campaign… Continue Reading →
New government data shows that sales of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products increased last year for the first time in two decades, raising concerns that pandemic-related stress spurred an uptick… Read more » The post Tobacco Sales Rose Last Year… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said Friday its hope to reach zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, as thousands of protesters gathered in Tel Aviv to demand action ahead of next week’s U.N. summit on climate change. As a small country,… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Do you enjoy Shabbos? Do you really enjoy Shabbos? Sometimes, Shabbos is presented as restrictive, focusing on what we cannot do. However, we all know that the true beauty of Shabbos is exciting and about all that we can… Continue Reading →
Israel’s police and security forces, as well as medical teams, are gearing up to receive the tens of thousands of Jews expected to visit the Ma’aras HaMachpelah in Hebron this weekend for Parshas Chayei Sarah. The annual event, which was… Continue Reading →
The Biden administration has been putting massive pressure on Israel to allow it to reopen a consulate in Jerusalem for Palestinians, despite well-knowing that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and other senior government officials are vehemently opposed to the move. The… Continue Reading →
The chairman of the Knesset’s Religious Services Committee MK Yulia Malinovsky (Yisrael Beiteinu) made an unprecedented attack on the Rabbanut and others who opposed the kashrus reforms advanced by Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana, which were passed in the committee… Continue Reading →
Six months have passed since the terrible Meron disaster but the wounds are still fresh for those who lost their loved ones on that terrible day. Kikar H’Shabbat spoke to three family members: Rav Yeshayahu Fogel, the father of Yedidya… Continue Reading →
When Yossie Hecht (Yosef Chaim ben Devorah Leah), a beloved yeshiva bachur at Yeshiva Darchei Torah, took ill, his friends and the entire Far Rockway-Five Towns community came to his… Read more » The post Yossie Hecht With His New… Continue Reading →
Lakewood resident Dovid Egert, a Captain in the U.S. Army, seen here during a counter explosive training exercise in Canada. Lt. Col. Joel D. Smith (left), the commander of the 192nd Ordnance Battalion (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), stands with Capt. Dovid… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Mounting trash. Closed firehouses. Fewer police and ambulances on the street. That’s the possibility New York City is bracing for come Monday as a COVID-19 vaccine mandate looms and thousands of municipal workers remain unwilling to… Continue Reading →
Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Reinman is a noted author of acclaimed sefarim Shufra Dshtara, Abir Yosef, and many other works. He is also the bestselling author of the classic Avner Gold’s Pulichuver series. Rabbi Reinman is a brilliant linguist with fascinating… Continue Reading →
The Jewish bishop of Yafo whose parents and siblings were murdered by the Nazis, passed away this week at the age of 91 and will be buried next to a mass kever in Poland, where his mother and sisters are… Continue Reading →